Eric Allin Cornell is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, synthesized the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995. Cornell, Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001, announced October 9, 2001. Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman, “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”. Eric Cornell: born 1961, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Wolfgang Ketterle: born 1957, Heidelberg, West Germany (now Germany). Carl Wieman: born 1951, Corvallis, OR, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).